SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

“Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”?

John Fogerty - “Mr. Greed”

I feel like "Mr. Man" has appeared several times

The Kinks, "Little Miss Queen of Darkness"

Killers,"Mr Brightside"

Mr. Briefcase - Lee ritenour

“little miss strange”
“he’s misstra know it all”

Ashlee Simpson - "Little Miss Obsessive"

Edie Brickell, "Little Miss S"

“Mr Clean” by the Jam
“Mr Shuck ‘n’ Jive” by Art Garfunkel (maybe the Waylon & Willie version is better known? It’s a Jimmy Webb song anyway.).

"He's Misstra Know It All" - Stevie
"Mr Big" - Free

"Mr. Sheep" - Randy Newman

Mr. Vain by Culture Beat
Mr. Skeng by Stormzy
Mrs. Officer by Lil Wayne

Mr. Blue Sky by ELO
Mr. Brownstone by Guns & Roses
Mr. Moustache by Nirvana

songs with somewhat pedestrian verses that ratchet up significantly in intensity during the pre-chorus/chorus:

feel like Accept's "Balls to the Wall" is the best example of this. starts out with a boilerplate opening riff, verse is pretty restrained, makes you think that maybe this is a weirdly subdued opener, then the pre-chorus starts and suddenly Udo is shrieking at you and we're segueing into an amazing gang chorus.

was just taken aback by that abrupt shift the first time, how awesome it was.

Mr Loverman by Shabba Ranks
Mr Mind Detector by Goffin/King (Everly Bros, Status Quo)

Oh wait i think that one's a Quo original and there was a different Goffin/King song on that same record

Mr. Suit

Two more songs about not finding stuff you are looking for:

The Divine Comedy, "Lost Property"
Van der Graaf Generator, "All That Before"

songs that explore the looseness of Lucys:

(aka some of the best songs in the world)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvQ4zRHMLo
Destra Garcia • Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAA
Eltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)

Grateful Dead - Loose Lucy

Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”

the acrobatics to draw on the phrase "beg borrow or steal" in the third line are even clunkier.

re: sorrow/tomorrow, this has to be one of those rhymes that shows up in hundreds upon hundreds of songs

From Autumn to Ashes did that shit:

You might be just what I need
No I would not change a thing
Been dreaming of this so long
But we only exist in this song
The thing is, I'm not worth the sorrow
And if you come and meet me tomorrow

Songs that use music/a musical instrument as a metaphor for being or falling in love.

We fell in love in the key of C...
You followed me down the neck to D

Wilco, Shot in the Arm

Toni Braxton • Spanish Guitar

Kathleen Edwards, "The Cheapest Key"

Ebony and Ivory

(J/k)

Never understood that Wilco line

He put his dick on the guitar while he was teaching her to play it

ABBA, "Dum Dum Diddle"

it ain't about the D

is the fiddle a metaphor for falling in love? i thought the idea was that he was literally so busy practicing fiddle-playing to fall in love.

wish I was dum dum diddle, your darling fiddle

it's a variation on the "play me like you play your (Spanish) guitar" trope, but who's playing what here?

Kathleen Edwards, "The Cheapest Key"

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:06 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

good one

Songs that begin with an instrumental imitation of a steam train starting up and gathering speed:

Funky Like a Train by The Equals
Europe by Train by The Divine Comedy

Kevin Ayers - Stop This Train (Again Doing It)

David Bowie - Station to Station

The Train From Kansas City(?)

(Good one for Word painting / “meta music”)

"I would like to know of songs about audio engineering":
"Ask For Jill" by the dBs (mastering engineering)

"album titles that are cobbled together from the titles of two or more songs that appear on the album":
Christmas and the Beads of Sweat by Laura Nyro ("Christmas in My Soul" and "Beads of Sweat")

The Juantrip album on F-Communications has one song that begins with a sort of imitation of a train gathering speed, and a different song about a train.

Songs that begin with an instrumental imitation of a steam train starting up and gathering speed:

Rodgers & Hart "All Points West"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bC-vH2DnA

good one - sounds like a precursor to the jaws theme!

Songs that begin with an instrumental imitation of a steam train starting up and gathering speed:

Funky Like a Train by The Equals
Europe by Train by The Divine Comedy

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Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
Justin Townes Earle - Halfway to Jackson
Miranda Lambert - Locomotive

This may be too common especially in rap but I'm interested in Songs Not Explicitly About A Place But That Feature Lyrics That Hint The Characters/Story Exists In A Specific Place To An Extent You Think The Song Represents That Place Better Than Songs Explicitly About The Place

any examples?

The Hold Steady's "Little Hoodrat Friend" for Minneapolis. I started thinking about this when listening to Neko Case's "Margaret vs. Pauline," which has the line "Two girls ride the blue line," which I assume is a Chicago reference?

Is it? I never knew where that song was set, which I guess is your point (Minneapolis has a blue line!)

To be clear, I'm not sure about the Case reference - my guess comes from the fact that she lived in / has roots in Chicago and there are other Chicago references on Fox Confessor, like the intro to "Star Witness" - but this got me thinking about the prompt.